Monday, May 10, 2010

[Word Powers] Today's Words

Vicissitude (vi-sisi-t(y)-ood) (Noun):

 

1.            A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something.

 

2.            Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

 

The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research.           

 Acquittal (u-kwitl) (Noun):

 

1. A judgment of not guilty.

 

If the court sets aside the order it may also reinstate the original acquittal.



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